Friday, January 23, 2015

Praise the Lord for creating West Virginia even if it was a Yankee stronghold in the 19th century.

A
bill introduced in the West Virginia House of Delegates this week would
block unconstitutional foreign deployments of the state’s national
guard troops, effectively restoring the Founders’ framework for
state-federal balance on the Guard.

House Bill 2168 (HB2168),
the Defend the Guard Act, was introduced by Del. Pat McGeehan
(R-Hancock, 1), a former Air Force intelligence officer who did tours in
Afghanistan and the Middle East, and cosponsored by ten other
delegates. If passed, the bill would block the federal government from
deploying West Virginia Guard troops overseas unless there is a
declaration of war from Congress, as required by the Constitution.

“This
bill essentially says, ‘If you don’t follow the highest law of the
land, then we will withhold our Guard troops.’ The language and intent
of the Constitution is so clear on this one issue,” McGeehan told the Wheeling News-Register.

A romantic depiction of the mayor of Leiden offering his arms as food to
the starving inhabitants of Leiden during the siege by the Spanish in
the Fall of 1574.

On 23 January 1579 the Union of Utrecht was signed, creating the
Dutch Republic. They fought the Spanish 80 years (1568-1648) to make
good their independence. What a people! Tiny country, mighty hearts.
At the siege of Leyden (1573/4) one of the leaders addressed the
starving people and said, "Starvation is preferable to dishonored
death. . . my life is at your disposal; here is my sword, plunge it into
my breast, & divide my flesh among you. Take my body to appease
your hunger, but expect no surrender, so long as I remain alive."

Encouraged, the defenders returned to the walls & hurled renewed
defiance at their enemies. "Ye call us rat- eaters and dog-eaters, and
it it true. So long, then, as ye hear dog bark or cat mew within the
walls, ye may know that the city holds out. And when all has perished
save ourselves, be sure that we will each devour our left arms,
retaining our right to defend our women, our liberty, and our religion
against the foreign tryant.The siege of Leyden Giants say such things; giants do them.

When President Obama declares something a “success story,” you know it has “TOTAL FAILURE” embedded in its DNA.

Four months ago, America’s King Midas
in Reverse crowed about the fruits of his triumphant foreign policy in
jihad-infested Yemen. A “light footprint” approach to counterterrorism
operations, he claimed, was the most effective path to stability. In
addition, Obama has shoveled nearly $1 billion in American
tax-subsidized foreign aid to Yemen.

Four months later, Iran-backed Shia
rebels seized a Yemeni presidential palace. The president and his entire
cabinet tendered their resignations on Thursday,
creating a vacuum that al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula is ready and
eager to fill. ISIS is gaining its own Sunni foothold in the Muslim
terror-breeding ground. And while the JV team at the State Department
dithers with hashtag games and selfies, adults at the Pentagon want to
evacuate U.S. embassy personnel and other Americans before it’s too
late.

At time of publication, 18 students were enrolled in the course
offered at ASU’s Tempe campus. Students can receive three credits for
successfully completing the course.

The class syllabus is not available online.

"I think it shows the significant double standard of higher education
institutions," James Malone, a junior economics major, told Campus Reform.
"They would never allow a class talking about the problem of
'blackness.' And if they did, there would be an uproar about it. But you
can certainly harass people for their apparent whiteness."

A federal judge on Friday evening issued a ruling striking down
Alabama’s constitutional ban on gay marriage on the grounds that it
violates the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution’s 14th
Amendment.

The plaintiffs in the case, Cari Searcy and Kimberly McKeand, have
been a same-sex couple since 2000. They’ve lived in Mobile, Ala., since
2001, but traveled to California in 2008 to get legally married after
winning a San Diego Convention Bureau contest, according to the
Associated Press.

On Friday, McDaniel will be announcing—he told Breitbart News
exclusively—a new Political Action Committee (PAC) designed to help
conservatives across Mississippi, and the nation, get elected to
political office, replacing GOP establishment politicians.

The PAC, titled the United Conservatives Fund will focus on “electing
conservatives and holding Republicans accountable while messaging
conservatism in a way that secures conservatives get a chance to be
elected even over some of those in the establishment,” McDaniel tells
Breitbart.

What we’re focused on here is a couple of things: The
first is we’re creating an organization that speaks directly to
conservatism, not to party. Second, we want an organization that will
focus on outreach. We do outreach based on logical and intricate
messaging. And lastly, we’ve got to be able to hold our officials
accountable because despite the grassroots complaining and despite our
wishes, so far the Republican leadership in the establishment has
ignored us. This fund will be used to make them listen to us once and
for all.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin declined to speculate on a potential
2016 run Thursday at the 2015 SHOT Show in Las Vegas, but she did offer
the GOP some free political advice. We caught up with Palin as she was
promoting the second season of her show, “Amazing America,” which airs on the Sportsman Channel Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET.

“I’m not going to talk politics except to say the GOP had better go
on offense. Man, they are not going to win any game on defense,” she
told TheBlaze. “Being in the majority there in D.C. — we’re blowing it
if we just bend our back.”

She added, “That GOP leadership, that establishment, they’ve got to
get their stuff together. I love what they believe in, I believe in it
too. But they’ve got to get tough, man. You know what? It’s not just the
New England Patriots who are dealing with deflated balls right now.”

The National Citizenship and Immigration Services Council, a group
representing 12,000 immigration agents, is criticizing a new House GOP
border security bill that it says does not do enough to combat illegal
border crossings.

The group released a statement Thursday raising
concerns about legislation drafted by Homeland Security Committee
Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) that is due on the House floor next
week.

Kenneth
Palinkas, the council’s president, said the 72-page bill does nothing
to stop illegal border crossers from turning themselves into the
authorities and gaining asylum.

“Almost anyone at all can call
themselves an asylum-seeker and get in; it’s a global joke. It’s not
border security if anyone can recite the magic words and get waved right
on in,” Palinkas said in a statement.

New this year from Century Arms is
the latest iterations of the C39, and its stamped receiver brother the
RAS 47. Yes this recipe has been attempted before, but not to such a
high standard. These look like they’ll be much more rugged, and still
affordable. That’s a strong selling point for an AK that’s made in the
United States.

The C39V2 is an AKM pattern rifle built exclusively from U.S. made
parts. It is built around a milled 4140 steel receiver and dressed with
premium wood furniture. The rifle isn’t just your standard AK. The
safety lever has a bolt hold open cut out that can hold the chamber
open. The trigger is now upgraded to the RAK-1 enhanced trigger system
which gives the user an unbelievably clean trigger pull. The magazine
release has been upgraded to an over-sized T-shaped lever which makes
reloads even easier. And lastly, the barrel is threaded and then paired
with a Century Arms muzzle break. The enhancements made to the rifle
make this gun a true bargain at its $740 price tag.

The RAS 47 is also 100% U.S. made but is instead built around a stamped
steel receiver. It is also upgraded with RAK-1 trigger system, the T
shaped magazine release, and threaded barrel but this time utilizing an
AK style slant break. What sets this rifle apart from the C39V2 is the
addition of a receiver mounted optics rail, the stamped receiver, and
less expensive wood. Coming in at $640, this rifle is truly a bargain.

They ought to rename the Republican Party that gained majority control of both the House and Senate in November’s midterm elections only to turn around and renege on campaign promises immediately after being sworn in, the Pontius Pilate Party, PPP for short.

No other name better suits a party that staged an 11th-hour revolt against the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, the 20-week abortion ban that had already got a green light in the last Congress with overwhelming GOP support.

Strikingly shameful, it was mostly women Repubs who ended forcing the cancellation of a vote scheduled to coincide with yesterday’s March for Life and the anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision. Namely, Representative Marsha, Blackburn (R., Tenn.), Rep. Renee Ellmers of North Carolina and Rep. Jackie Walorski of Indiana.

In some circles, Blackburn, Ellmers and Walorski, quaking in fear of Dem attack ads, coveting womens’ votes for GOP and wanting the approval of millennials, the same ones looting and torching in Ferguson, MO, could be called ‘Agents of Death’.

First Lieutenant Clint Lorance
never imagined that following the rule of engagement to save not only
his life, but the lives of his fellow soldiers against Islamic enemies
would result in him spending nearly two decades in prison. But it did.
Lorance, 30, had been trained to make split-second decisions and his
training culminated in a real-life scenario in July 2012 when he and his
squad were on a foot patrol in southern Afghanistan. He had just been
made Platoon Leader after his predecessor had been severely wounded.

At that time, Lorance led his troops into a Taliban-infested territory, where their air support had indicated that there were enemy personnel in the vicinity.

I am writing this in defense of Govonor Charles B Aycock, a great Statesman and a champion for Blacks in the State of NC. There are misguided people in NC wrapped with hate that would like to destroy all Southern History and are going to do so unless you and I stand up to them. I understand the University may drop the name of Aycock from your campus. I am writing this statement in defense of Gov. Aycock and wish you to consider the History behind it. I also understand that you and the Trustees are to take up the matter this coming week.

The defense for Gov. Aycock is the context of his times and how he stood up for blacks against universal popular opinion in North Carolina and the whole country to keep them down.

In 1900, white supremacy was the reigning ideology in all of America. This was especially so in the North and Midwest. The intellectual bastion of white supremacy was Harvard, with its School of Scientific Racism. The U.S. Supreme Court had rendered in 1892 its decision in Plessy v. Ferguson allowing racial segregation in the public realm. All the states then started implementing racial segregation. This was the key issue for Progressives to support.

Both the Democratic and Republican parties in every state and at the national level were expelling blacks from public office and from any influence. With much pride and acclaim, the Democrats called it "Jim Crow" and the Republicans called it being "Lily White."

Josephus Daniels as Editor of the Raleigh News & Observer was the most vocal and the leading proponent fin N.C. for white supremacy and attempted to use Aycock as his tool.

In this context, Gov. Aycock defied Daniels and asked the state legislature for equal funding for black schools. It refused and wanted no funding for black schools. Gov. Aycock then threatened to resign from office unless there was equal funding. The state legislature then caved to Gov. Aycock and voted close to equal funding. Daniels turned against Gov. Aycock (although they were childhood friends).

The most notable quote from Gov. Aycock is the "equal right of every person for the opportunity to burgeon out all that is within him." He further said before he died that "equality" is what he wants to be known for.

This is the sentiment of a true egalitarian, and not that of a white supremacist.

Gov. Aycock was an egalitarian during the heyday of racial inequality.

I urge you and your colleagues to reconsider the thought that Aycock was racist and consider the facts of a man that cared for all and allow the memory of Aycock to stand on your campus.

Yours truly,

John L Pippin, Jr.
President of the Fremont Historical Museum and Preservation Society

Last week I wrote that ISIS would attack Saudi Arabia this
spring. This week the opportunity to attack with a high likelihood of
success arrived: The King of Saudi Arabia died today. Unfortunately for
the Saudi's, King Abdulla died before his Kingdom's gambit to gain
control of ISIS paid off.

The hurricane came in off the Atlantic and slammed into the Carolina
coasts at 2am on Thursday. For once, the weather forecasters were right,
and it did not weaken to a Category 4 from a Category 5 as it got
closer to shore. In the inky blackness of night, the hellstorm tore its
way inland from Myrtle Beach and carved a path of total destruction as
it howled all the way up to Asheville before it transmogrified into a
tropical storm that flooded 18 inches of rain on the wreckage it sowed.

Regardless of the preparation taken by the local, state, and federal
emergency management agencies, millions were now without shelter, water,
electricity, or help. The country had not seen anything like this,
ever. It was the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, and Hurricane Katrina
combined into one. Whole towns – gone. Contact with the coasts – lost.
Staged preparations – missing. As the sun rose from the east, the
horrors of what nature had wrought would make the most hardened man
tremble.

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.